![]() ![]() ![]() “Somebody had even started selling T-shirts on Etsy that said KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON with a photo of Baz and Simon glaring at each other.” Fangirl acknowledges that there can be a negative side to fandom - “Sometimes they even turned against her,” Rowell notes. (“ Why does Gemma hate Baz?”)” Cath reflects at one point. People were always telling Cath that they couldn’t look at canon the same way after reading her stuff. “For thousands of people, Carry On was already it. The people who read Cath’s fiction, particularly her book-length work Carry On, Simon, are largely enthusiastic, even worshipful. But it’s not quite the exploration of fandom and fan communities that it might have been.įangirl is a kind book, full of people who basically want to do the correct things, and one of the areas in which its kindness manifests is in its portrayal of fandom. Fangirl is a good, sweet coming-of-age novel. But for all Fangirl’s core conflict involves Cath becoming brave enough to move away from fan fiction as her primary form of engagement with her sister, and as her primary creative outlet, the book falls somewhat short when it comes to living up to its title. Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, published early last month, is a tender portrait of young adulthood, as it follows Cath, an anxious young woman who’s achieved a certain measure of fame writing fan fiction about a popular fantasy series, heads off to the University of Nebraska and starts developing a life separate from her mentally ill father and her twin sister. ![]()
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